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SheltieLover

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15. Me too, Beagles!

Reply to MustLoveBeagles (Reply #14)

Fri Feb 13, 2026, 07:31 PM

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From its inception, DHS was a corruption of fundamental American values. [View all] pat_k 13 hrs ago OP

I recall when it was created & there were many who opposed it. SheltieLover 13 hrs ago #1

Including moi! Mme. Defarge 12 hrs ago #2

Me too... SheltieLover 12 hrs ago #4

If I remember correctly, the wet dream was actually pnac's. We knew they niyad 10 hrs ago #20

Yes. SheltieLover 10 hrs ago #22

Way back when I saved a report on PNAC pat_k 8 hrs ago #28

Would you consider posting this as its own OP, for wider niyad 7 hrs ago #32

I was one MustLoveBeagles 11 hrs ago #14

Me too, Beagles! SheltieLover 11 hrs ago #15

Yep TimeToGo 10 hrs ago #16

I was suspicious right from the start when they used the term "Homeland". llmart 10 hrs ago #17

Same here. SheltieLover 10 hrs ago #23

My elderly father, who was raised as a farm Republican, was absolutely INCENSED by Jack Valentino 7 hrs ago #35

Your dad sounds like a great patriot! SheltieLover 7 hrs ago #36

I forgot to say my 'late' father.... he died in 2020, at the age of 91... Jack Valentino 7 hrs ago #38

So sorry for your loss. SheltieLover 6 hrs ago #40

I particularly miss him when working on my garden, which is something we did together Jack Valentino 5 hrs ago #41

The fear of immigrants coming here goes hand-in-hand with racism FakeNoose 12 hrs ago #3

I Wholly Agree - It Was a Corrupt Idea and Violation of the American Credo from the Get-go The Roux Comes First 12 hrs ago #5

Absolutely! (does not excuse the current further corruption) pat_k 10 hrs ago #26

I always hated that name Homeland MacKasey 12 hrs ago #6

When I first heard homeland under the Bush administration, Sanity Claws 11 hrs ago #7

I think when we redeem our national soul 1WorldHope 11 hrs ago #8

Now, that's an idea! pat_k 7 hrs ago #33

Whose time has come! 🙂 1WorldHope 7 hrs ago #37

Nazis favored the word ''heimat'' dalton99a 11 hrs ago #9

We are a Nation, not some ethnic Homeland. pat_k 8 hrs ago #30

So say we all. BidenRocks 11 hrs ago #10

Yes, the entire reorganization that led to DHS (and that un-American name) needs to be undone. JHB 11 hrs ago #11

republicans are an organizational mess BaronChocula 11 hrs ago #12

Using the word "homeland" has always given me the willies. It's creepy. paleotn 11 hrs ago #13

I have no doubt that it was intended. pat_k 7 hrs ago #34

INDEED! For anybody 'white', this is NOT their 'homeland'! Jack Valentino 6 hrs ago #39

Bush legacy malaise 10 hrs ago #18

It was a harmful idea from the start dlk 10 hrs ago #19

A Lot of Us Deep State Witch 10 hrs ago #21

end this travesty. quakerboy 10 hrs ago #24

I remember in the GW Bush days when the government formed DHS and they began infringing phylny 10 hrs ago #25

Referring to the country as "Homeland" should have set off klaxon horns during W's administration Tim S 9 hrs ago #27

For many it did -- but tragically not enough. pat_k 7 hrs ago #31

DURec leftstreet 8 hrs ago #29

DHS is some nazi bullshit. Always has been. Iggo 5 hrs ago #42